2002 BMW 325CI problems
The 2002 BMW 325CI has 33 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (70%) concerns air bags. After that come electrical system (9%) and body & structure (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 33 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 70% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 1 and 1
- Injuries and deaths
- 1 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 113,000 miles 18 complaints with mileage
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 0 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 2 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 1 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 0 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 3 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 5 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 1 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 2 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 1 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Among the 18 complaints that report mileage, the typical (median) problem appeared at about 112,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 1 complaint mentions a crash; 1 complaint mentions a fire; 1 injury reported.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 2002 ranks 6th most-complained-about out of 6 model years of the BMW 325CI with enough data (1 complaint in that window). It is also covered by 3 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Tl* the contact owned a 2002 BMW 325ci. The contact called on behalf of the driver. While making a left turn, the contact's vehicle was involved in a head on collision. The air bags failed to deploy. The driver of the contact's vehicle sustained bruises, but did not require medical attention. The driver of the other vehicle was not injured. A police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed and towed to a tow lot. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or an independent mechanic for the air bag failure.
Tl* the contact owns a 2002 BMW 325ci. The contact was driving 40 MPH in rainy weather when smoke began emitting from the instrument panel. The contact was able to stop the vehicle and within minutes, the interior was engulfed in flames. The local fire department was dispatched and was able to extinguish the fire and determined the origin to be electrical. A fire report was filed and the vehicle was deemed destroyed. The manufacturer was not contacted. The failure mileage was 90,000.
Today, after filling up gas for the first time in 2 months, since I purchased this new used 2002 BMW 325ci, model with now 45,000+ mileages. I live in neighborhoods that requires a lot of red light stop. As I stopped today, at around 9am, after the gas station, my break noise squeak, and then it would not stop. As I drive and stop on the red light, my car would jump, " bounce forward then stop" before it can it fully stop.
Takata recall hello, I'm at my BMW service center now (BMW of fairfax) to have service done on my car. I received notification of the takata air bag recall and notified the service center as to when I can get my air bags fixed. They could not give me a definitive time line. I went to the service center today to have regular service done on my car and again they could not give me an exact time line.
When putting on seatbelt on both driver and passenger side the seatbelt will go in and moments later during driving it will unclique and come off this happens every once in a while not all the time. Just happens while the vehicle is in motion and stationary mostly while the vehicle is stationary. You can hear it click and sometimes I even pull it to make sure it is clicked in because of this problem and sometimes after I do that it will unclick, it happens mostly on the driver side but every once in a while on the…